Running-gear for wagons.



No. 7|4,5e3.l Patented Nov. 2541902'.-

A. Mjcusnm. RUNNING GEAR FOR WAGUNS.

(Application filed June 1B, 1902.)-

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AUGUSTUS M. OUSIIING, OF MINONK, ILLINOIS.

RUNNING-GEAR FOR WAGONS.

SPECFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,563, dated November 25, 1902.

Application iiled June 13,1902. Serial No. 112,210. (No model.)

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of running-gear for Wagons and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive device of great strength and durability adapted to be readily applied to the rear portion of a running-gear and capableof supporting the rear bolster and the rear hounds and of permitting the runninggear to be lengthened without employing a reach of great length.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of the rear truck of a running-gear constructed in accordance withthis invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional View of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the connecting device which is adapted to form an extension of the reach. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View on the line 4 4 of Fig. l.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the gures of the drawings.

l designates a connecting device consisting of a bar extending forward from the rear axle 2 to apoint in advance ot' the rear hounds 3 and provided at its rear end with an upwardlyextending flange or `lip t, which is perforated for the reception of a bolt 5 or other suitable fastening device for securing it to the rear bolster. The connecting device is provided adjacent to its front end with lateral projections or arms 6, which are perforated for the reception of fastening devices 7 for securing the projections or arms to thefront ends of the rear hounds, which are also connected by reach 9. The connecting device and the bottom plate are provided with registering perforations adapted to receive a connectingbolt lO,-and the reach is also provided with perforations l1.

The reach, which is arranged between the front ends ot' the rear hounds, extends rearward through an opening l2, formed by recesses inthe rear axle and the rear bolster, Vand it is supported between the lower plate 8 and the connecting device, which is also extended in advance of the rear hounds, as clearly shown in Fig. l. The front end of the connecting device is provided with a depending rectangular box or sleeve 13, forming a guide and support for the reach and conforming to the configuration of the same. The box or sleeve is provided at the top and bottom with perforations and is adapted to receive a fastening device for securing it to the reach. The connecting device is provided at intervals with perforations and bolts, or pins may be arranged at any desired point or points.

The running-gear is adapted to be lengthened without employing a reach of the length usually required for this purpose, as the connecting device l is adapted to form acontin- 'nation of the reach, as shown in Fig.`2, and

when the parts are arranged in this manner the reach is connected with the rear hounds and also with the rear axle and bolster, so as to pull from the center of the same without depending solely on the rear hounds for such connection. The device is also adapted to cooperate with the lower plate S in connecting the front ends of the rear hounds, and it obviates the necessity of employing a separate upper plate for this purpose.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a running-gear, that it is capable of supporting and bracing the same, and that it will also enable the running-gear to be lengthened without necessitating the employment of the extra long reach usually provided for that purpose and without disconnecting the reach from the rear bolster.

What I claim isl. The combination with a rear truck, and

a reach, of a connecting device consisting of a bar extending longi-tudinally of the reach and secured to the rear truck at the back thereof and to the rear hounds at the front ends thereof, and provided with a loop to receive the reach, and adapted to form a continuation of the latter to enable the same to be lengthened to increase the length of the running-gear, and a fastening device for securing the connecting device to the reach, substantially as described.

V2. The combination with a rear truck, and a reach, of a connecting device consisting of a bar extending longitudinally of the reach and fitting against the same and secured at its rear end to the rear truck at a point adjacent to the reach, said connecting device being provided at its front end With a loop to receive the reach and having lateral provo jections located in rear of the loop and secured to the rear hounds at the front ends thereof, substantially as described.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of a rear truck, a reach, a co'nnecting device consisting of a bar extending longitudinally of the reach and provided at its rear end with a lip and having a loop at its front end to receive the lreach and provided at an intermediate point with lateral eXtensions secured to the rear hounds and a fastening device securing the connecting device tothe reach, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

AUGUSTUS M. CUSHING.

Witnesses:

G. R. DANFORTH, J. A. MINGERs. 

